…I remember the days when reporters snooping around the Tri-Lats could expect to be captured and programmed into sleeper agents assassinating Third World warlords. Now? Apologies.
Secretary of State John Kerry’s private remarks to a meeting of influential world leaders last week were allegedly taped by a reporter from The Daily Beast, a fact that led to a personal apology from Trilateral Commission chairman Joseph S. Nye on Monday.
In a letter to Sec. Kerry, obtained by POLITICO, Nye expressed “my deep apology and dismay that a reporter form The Daily Beast, Josh Rogin, somehow sneaked into the meeting room in which you were speaking to the Commission this past Friday.”
“He was not invited,” Nye wrote. “Althought how Mr. Rogin slipped past both Commission staff and Diplomatic Security is unclear to me, we have confirmed that he indeed was present and apparently recorded the session.”
I got my issues with the Daily Beast (and I probably do have issues with Josh Rogin about something he’s written), but if I were him I’d be putting Outwitted the Trilateral Commission on my next set of business cards. Because that’s a brag, in the right circles.
Moe Lane
PS: Heck, that should go on the resume.